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Between 1990 and 1995, twenty thousand cases of leprosy were treated with WHO recommended multiple drug therapy (MDT) in Ivory Coast. A disability survey was conducted in April 1996 with a half-randomized sample of five hundred patients. This survey showed that 28.73% of the patients had got grade two disabilities in WHO scale. 12.9% of the non disabled patients at detection had developed leprosy impairments during or after treatment. Plantar ulcers (12.2% of the patients) appeared very...
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Several models of adolescent sexual activity have previously been published and most of them suggest two basic components, biological and sociological. This article highlights important environmental factors in shaping the sexual behaviour of the school-going youth in Uganda. Students in education levels Senior 1 to 6 participated in the study. Information was collected from self-response structured questionnaires, focus-group discussions, and discussions with teachers. Student respondents...
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In the last few years many changes have taken place in South Afrrca. The creation of a nonracial. non-sexist. democratic South Africa presents a challenge to everybody in the country. The heterogeneous population structure. with a plurality of Value systems. makes teacher educacation and training very qomplex. Teachers are significant change agents in a diverse society. such as South Africa. Teachers need to learn to accommodate different value systems and to place them within a framework of...
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Agricultural Education and Training (AET) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) needs to respond to the many changes in the socio-economic and political environments within which it exists. In addition to these, there are marked changes in the concept of ‘agriculture’ itself, which is increasingly seen in terms of broader notions of renewable natural resource management, with increasing emphasis on integrated systems and sustainable production. Traditional forms of AET are also challenged by new ideas...
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It is commonly accepted that a language reflects a particular culture and that learners should be made aware of the implicit values and beliefs of that culture in contrast to their own. However, in countries where English is used as a language of wider communication the users of English increasingly imbue that language with the accent, lexical items and value systems of their first language, particularly when English is also taught by non‐native speakers. One has to ask to what extent such...
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The COllection currently stands at approximately 4 000 titles. including a textbook collection. Unfortunately. the book budget has been dwindling through the years to an eltent that we now rely more on dOnaIions than out' own resources. To this extent, the Japanese and British governments have been a great source of suppon through their JICA and aDA programmes. The University of Pretoria has been of great assistance to us and has so far given us two dOtWions tOtalling 112 titles . We are really very grateful at this gesrure .